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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1935
Page
4
The Keystone Automobile Club of Maryland urges a general clean up of roadside lunch stands and filling station wash rooms. Albert E. Buckley notes motorists complain these facilities are dirty and unsanitary. Clean places attract travelers and protect business from loss, while poorly kept ones deter patronage.
A 1930s style warning argues private car drivers have less at stake than commercial operators. It notes car registrations rose 7 percent with fatal crashes up 55 percent since 1927, while trucks rose 11 percent with only 5 percent more fatal crashes. It urges strict safety, noting 35000 deaths last year from reckless or incompetent driving and warns drivers their lives and others depend on competence.
Congress approved 4.88 billion dollars for work relief but by July first only promises existed. Roosevelt said unemployed would gain federal jobs yet few were hired. Ickes and Hopkins clashed over project control, the President assigning jurisdiction by project type and cost. Ickes to high materials projects, Hopkins to labor heavy ones.
The work relief program starts but 3,500,000 job seekers remain. Major laws in limbo include the Guffey Coal Bill the Wagner Labor Relations Bill and the Bus and Truck Bill with broad support. The Supreme Court will shape outcomes on alcohol control and banking revamp.
Cooperative Bank Commissioner F W Peck warns in a recent address that many farm cooperatives fail due to over confidence poor capital and weak market links. Real success depends on sound business principles competent management and clear need, not magic. Bad co ops hinder farmer prosperity.
Democrats curtail the Roosevelt program with opposition to the Wagner Labor Bill and warnings against further experiments. Postmaster General Farley campaigns abroad as Congress drafts Tennessee Valley amendments and Roosevelt sends a batch of postmaster nominations. The press faces self censorship as heated tempers rise over must legislation and accusations of a rubber stamp Congress.
The piece notes U S government reports suggest the nation is on the road to better times while politicians quarrel over the door around the corner. It argues sober officials’ statistics are dependable apart from partisan noise and public mood.
The article argues that a community’s future hinges on resident contentment and local opportunities. It contends people stay where life and pay allow, and youth stay if education and local facilities support living there.
A Washington snapshot shows Weather Man shaping July adjournment talk as heat and politics fuse. Democrats hammer Administration policy while Republicans drift, with only a few vocal oppositions like McCarran challenging tariff deals with Russia and trade power reallocations.
Editorial notes affirm President Roosevelt's March message on public utility holding company reforms. Witnesses testified to intensive lobbying tactics including telegraph campaigns using fake signatures to sway Pennsylvania congressmen. Some telegrams bore names later denied by their senders, highlighting deceptive pressure in the lobbying effort.
The article cites Roosevelt’s criticism of holding companies as public utility monsters and notes pressure from citizens and utilities. It chronicles letters urging defeat of a bill, testimony on private social ism, and warnings by corporate counsel. It cites national debt projections, peacetime spending, and a Yakima columnist’s blunt take on tax spending and political gifts.
Worries over mounting public debt reach 34.249 billion dollars in 1936, equating to about 273.09 dollars per person. The text notes attempts to squeeze more from gas suppliers and buyers and from nuisance and excise taxes, signaling need for new revenue sources.
A compact collection of quotations urging open mindedness, pure human love, divine reflection, and fair conduct toward nations. It anchors on positive thoughts, right action, and peaceful harmony as guiding ideals.
A jumble of items from Talbot Queen Anne's and Caroline counties covers wheat and corn prices, a Watts' Creek bridge due August, a seashore crowd decline, a six-foot black snake near Ridgely, land purchases like the Ratcliff farm, road improvements, and talks of judicial timber. Reports include county fairs, a Sharptown bridge bill, a tri-county teachers institute, and multiple social visits. and a camp meeting schedule with notable attendees and dates in early August.
The Apworth League day features Mess Wath and Mach with noted singers assisting. Admission is set at five cents. Maryland welcomes Lawrence J. K. Blades of Choptank to the Naval Academy class four after passing mental and physical exams. Blades, son of J. T. Blades, is brother to Webster Blades and was placed by Congressman J. Tarry Covington. John A. Shawn dies suddenly at his Ridgely home after a long Queen Anne's County life. he was a carpenter turned farmer, twice married, with three children and two grandchildren. Funeral in Centreville, with pallbearers named. Thomas Rumbold Hubbard, aged about 80, dies in Baltimore. pioneer Eastern Shore fertiliser man and steamboat whistle pioneer.
The text notes 19th century family details of Mr Hubbard wife Josephine M. Watson of Delaware and children Anna and Wilbur W. Hubbard. It also mentions his church involvement at Christ Methodist Protestant Church Ches tertown. It describes the grounding of the steamer Dreamland off Queens town near Baltimore causing nearly 600 Baltimoreans to spend the night aboard the steamer at Love Point or Queens town.
A note extols salmon as nutritious and clever but notes that its charm comes from housewives who master party dishes. It promises to share one of these tested secrets to elevate gatherings with salmon based recipes.
A recipe blends salmon with white sauce in 15 percent four ounce cans, lined with sliced hard boiled eggs in buttered molds, topped with chopped salted peanuts, baked in hot water until crisp. The text ends with a quotation praising small acts of kindness from Addison.
Farm for rent at Ridgely comprising 165 acres for 1936 term. Apply P O Box 232 Denver, Md 727 at
A stream of dated lines recount small events and remarks: Friday Jane complains, Garry Cupper praised, Hatty Crumb upset over a divorce rumor, Mai reunites with an old friend, Joe Hix counts money owed, Pa prints a piece about Carl Sutter, Lizzy Rust is watched by Earl Tusk, and Effy Moss shows interest in drugs.
Ridgely residents hosted and visited relatives during the weekend with many traveling from Baltimore Wilmington Merchantville and Oxford. Mrs Sallie Parsons and daughter Ethel of Oxford visited here last Monday. A large number of Ridgely citizens spent Sunday in Rehoboth and several families entertained grandchildren from Merchantville New Jersey.
A Sunday electrical storm struck Kemp Todd’s farm near Chestnut Grove. The barn of cement block construction, two years old, burned after a lightning belt, destroying the hay crop and corn in a nearby crib. Loss estimated at $3,000, insured. It was the fourth lightning blaze this summer in the area.
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